Damned Souls and a Sangria by Annette Marie

“Before your new career options distract you too much, we should return to the party. After a moment of confusion, I placed my hand in his. “Take your time and think about it.”Īs I nodded, he circled the desk and held out his hand. “I-I’m not sure … what I … I mean …”ĭarius assessed my stunned expression with an understanding twinkle in his eyes.

Yeah, because any bounty I wanted to take on that was too difficult, Aaron the Fourth Officer would just go with me. “For your first year, you’ll need an officer’s approval for every case you take on-which won’t be difficult to obtain, I imagine.” “Felix indicated in his last evaluation that you’re ready to apply for your bounty license.” “You’ll also have more schedule flexibility should you choose to pursue bounty work on the side,” he added. Clara will oversee all your training, and once you’re ready, she’ll withdraw entirely from the pub side of the guild to focus on her AGM duties.” “If you accept, your responsibilities will include ordering, accounting, scheduling, staffing, licenses, maintenance, and so on. “While updating me on your exam progress, Clara also informed me that she’s utterly fed up with trying to run a guild and a business at the same time, and I need to hurry up and promote you to pub manager.” I haven’t decided anything.” I squinted at him. “Have you decided if you’ll pursue your full degree?”

My Associate’s Degree is in the bag, and if I complete another two years, I can get the full degree.” “Not bad.” Especially considering how many classes I’d missed in January and February. “Clara mentioned that you recently finished final exams for your college term. Did he really need to drag me away from my about-to-begin party to tell me that? “You’ve come far since you first wandered into this guild.” It looked just like it had the first time I’d sat here. I peered from the bookshelves to the stacks of papers on the desktop. As I sank nervously onto the chair in front of his large desk, he circled around it and took his seat. He led me up two flights of stairs, past the officers’ desks, and into his office. “It’ll only take a few minutes,” he assured me before I could protest. An invite to Darius’s office almost always meant someone was in trouble. Tori, I’d like a word in my office please.” “Yep!” Clara chirped, sweeping over to us with Sabrina and Sin on her heels, grinning proudly. A bunch of guildeds called out greetings as the GM headed toward me.

The guild door swung open again and Darius stepped inside, dressed smartly in a black bowtie over a baby blue button-down shirt that made his gray eyes pop even more intensely than usual. If even one person was late, I would smack them into next Christmas for ruining my party. The clock ticked closer to 2:45, and I did a swift headcount on the guests who’d arrived so far.

Damned Souls and a Sangria by Annette Marie